AWS Snowball resources

Software Tools

The AWS Snowball offers two software tools that can help you access and manage your device.

Snowball Client – A terminal application that you can use to unlock Snowball devices and to transfer data onto a standard Snowball.

We recommend that you use the latest Linux or Mac clients, which support the Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (AES-NI) extension to the x86 instruction set architecture. This improves speeds for encrypting or decrypting data during transfers between the Snowball and your Mac or Linux workstations.

S3 SDK Adapter for Snowball – A programmatic tool that you can use to transfer data between your on-premises data center and a standard Snowball. You can use the S3 Adapter with existing Amazon S3 interfaces like the AWS SDKs, the AWS CLI, or your own custom Amazon S3 REST client.

Datacenter Shutdown

Documentation

Provides a conceptual overview of how to use the AWS Snowball service and Snowball device, including guidance for importing into and exporting data out of the AWS Cloud, shipping considerations, and other features of a Snowball device.HTML | PDF

Describes all the job and shipping API operations for Snowball and Snowball Edge devices in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.HTML | PDF

Blog posts

No blog posts have been found at this time. Please see the AWS Blog for other resources.